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A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
Martin Luther, the Protestant Reformer and a prolific writer of hymns, wrote both the words and the tune of "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" between 1527 and 1529. The words are mostly his own, although the opening paraphrases Psalm 46. The earliest hymnal that survives with the hymn is Andrew Rauscher's of 1531.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). A Mighty Fortress Is Our God. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/a-mighty-fortress-is-our-god
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- “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/a-mighty-fortress-is-our-god. Accessed .
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- The Epoch Institute. “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/a-mighty-fortress-is-our-god.
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- The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘A Mighty Fortress Is Our God’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/a-mighty-fortress-is-our-god (Accessed: ).
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